Warm, charming and self-deprecating, new! can confirm that Nicola’s a lovely girl and brilliant with her energetic young boys, Rocky, five, and Striker, 21 months.

Married to footballer Tom Williams, 31, she’s content being a housewife and “squeezing in the odd glamorous job here and there”.

However, she raised eyebrows last year with her shockingly thin appearance, forcing her to admit she’s struggled with an eating disorder for most of her life.

While the mum of two (who we interviewed before she went on CBB) now looks much healthier than she did, here, she tells us why she’ll never fully conquer her weight demons, her shock surgery plans and who she’d hate to be in the CBB house with…

If you do go into the CBB house, how do you think you’d cope?The only thing I wouldn’t cope with is not seeing my sons and my husband. I’d miss my boys, but I coped in the jungle [on I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here!] for three weeks so, if I coped in there, I could cope anywhere.

Who would you love to be in the house with?Dolly Parton!

And who would you hate to be in there with?Natasha Giggs. I know we all have difficult lives, but I can’t work out how things went so wrong that she did what she did. If she goes on the show, she is just making money from ruining people’s lives. I know everyone has a past but, to me, it’s the lowest of the low. There is no way I’d be able to like her. I would definitely clash with her.

Being married to a footballer yourself, do you ever worry about women trying to sleep with Tom?Of course. I’d be stupid not to because everyone seems to be at it. All I can do is work every day to make sure I am a really good wife and a good mum. I am very trusting of Tom, though.

You were spotted looking very cosy with Blue’s Antony Costa on a night out recently. What’s going on there?How funny! My husband was there – they must have cut Tom out of the picture. Tom and Antony are good friends, so there’s nothing in those pictures at all. We were just leaning in to talk to each other. It looked worse than it was.

You had a public row with Natalie Cassidy. Would you be nice to her?Natalie made a few silly comments about me but, before I had kids, I also shot my mouth off without thinking. She criticised my weight, even though she blatantly had weight problems. OK, she has never got as skinny as me, but I have never got as overweight as her. I would never criticise someone for being fat and I don’t think someone should criticise me for how thin I was because I was ill.

You’ve had some beef with Katie Price over the years. What is your relationship like with her now?Non-existent. I haven’t seen her in a long time. I’m really good friends with Peter Andre, though, and they’ve got such lovely kids, so she can’t be that bad. She started the whole thing by slagging off my stretch marks and I bit back. But if me and Kate sat in a room together, we would probably end up getting on really well.

Are you still friends with Chantelle Houghton?We were under the same management. I thought she was a lovely girl but, since she switched management, I think she’s forgotten she knew me. She doesn’t speak to me when I see her out.

What about Kerry Katona?That friendship was a management thing. I think she has got a good heart but would she be my best friend? No. Should we praise her for no longer snorting cocaine in the bathroom? No. It should never have happened in the first place. People say, “Poor Kerry, she’s bankrupt!” Hold on, poor Kerry is living in a mansion with a swimming pool! That’s more than I’m living in. She says she’s got no money but she needs to go and speak to the homeless man on the corner. She is still doing magazine shoots in Lapland with her kids. She doesn’t have a bad life.